Bodycam (2026) by Brandon Christenson

Director: Brandon Christenson

Year: 2026

Country: Canada

Alternate Titles: N/A

Genre: Cult

Plot:

Undergoing a special operation, several police officers debate what to do with the body of the victim left behind following their mission, and the more they try to alter the incriminating footage from their bodycams, they find they’ve been targeted by a demonic cult for what they’ve done.

Review:

This was a fairly fun if somewhat problematic genre effort. Among the better features here is the solid central setup, which introduces a fantastic air of mystery that unfolds rather nicely. Starting with the opening arrival at the house and trying to go about their business, looking after the woman they find inside, only to be shocked at what she does afterward, serves as a great opening to the later chaos of trying to figure out what to do when everything that happens goes beyond what would happen in most normal cases. This becomes rather fun with the starting point here to the failed scrubbing of the video and the confusion over other forms of wiping their footage so that everything can go back to normal without the incident haunting them.

As the night continues and the different encounters they experience start getting crazier and more dynamic, this one offers up the kind of overt demonic material that hints at the full extent of the danger they’re facing when it slowly becomes apparent that a demonic cult has started to take notice of their activity. The sense of escalation that comes about with everyone they come across continually warning them away and the whole thing getting gar darker with a solid intrusion of nightmare-logic sequences and concepts to focus on the reach of the cult and their powers, leading to some highly impressive series of confrontations that take everything together into the frenzied finale. With the found-footage environment giving this some strong scares with the close-quarter viewpoints, there are some likable factors here.

There are a few drawbacks. The main factor here is the sense of confusion over what the cult actually is, as it tends to offer up no clear-cut view of the cult’s purpose. This one brings up the idea of them as being something eternally powerful and able to keep the community in such a state of fear and panic that it is known about but rarely spoken of in anything more than hushed whispers, yet the whole thing is barely known to the officers who are treating everything like brand new information. The ability to overwhelm the environment and take control of the situation with the different supernatural changes offers way too many overpowered instances where it’s impossible to believe they haven’t used this before to accomplish what they want, especially since everything is hushed about when they try to learn more, leaving the whole thing rather confusing. Alongside some generally poor CGI for the main demonic entity when we get to see it, these all hold this one down.

Overview: ***.5/5

A solid and overall enjoyable found-footage feature, this is a generally likable genre effort that does manage enough to hold off some confusing elements that are present within this one. Those with an appreciation for this style of genre fare, who are curious about it, or who are hardcore fans of found-footage films, will have a lot to like, while most others out there should heed caution.